Eighty constituencies recorded 50 percent or more turnout, and of those, 69 seats were won by Nao candidates, 10 seats were won by independent candidates and the Jatiya Party won one seat.
In 46 constituencies with 50 percent or more voting, the winning candidates defeated their nearest rivals by huge margins. Apparently there was no competition in those constituencies as Nao candidates won all of them.
More than 72 percent voting took place in Sirajganj-1 constituency. Tanveer Shakeel, the candidate nominated by the Awami League, got 278,971 votes, while his nearest rival Mohammad Zaheerul Islam of the Jatiya Party got 3,139 votes.
Tanveer Shakeel told Prothom Alo that he expects higher turnout as each election sees more than 80 percent turnout. This time the voting percentage is less because textile workers could not come home and some people shifted to other places due to river erosion.
People familiar with the politics of Sirajganj-1 said that the family of former Health Minister Mohammad Hashim is very popular in this seat and Tanveer Shakeel is his son. However, the presence of voters at polling stations was not that noticeable on the polling day.
Jatiya Party Zaheerul Islam said that they saw more voter turnout at some polling stations, as well as less voter turnout at some polling stations, but, they found the turnout to be high at 72 percent.
JSD candidate and freedom fighter Saiful Islam told Prothom Alo that there were complications in voting and voting was conducted haphazardly after 12:00 noon.
Despite the presence of no major rival, the Mymengh-10 constituency recorded nearly 62 percent voting as Awami League candidate Fahmi Gulendaj got 216,893 votes and his nearest rival Jatiya Party’s Nazmul Haq got 8,276 votes.
Nearly 65 percent voting took place in Rangamati. Bir Bahadur Ushwa Sing got 172,671 votes and his nearest rival ATM Shahidul Islam of Jatiya Party got 10,361 votes. Voter turnout was 46 percent in the 2014 election, in which the BNP did not participate.